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In 2024, market participants and Italian companies closed deals worth above 37 billion euros (34.5 billion in 2023) that also include the transactions with independent fintech platforms such as FinDynamic and PlusAdvance that amounted to 8 billion (10 billion in 2023), BeBeez Private Debt Report 2024 says (see here BeBeez Private Debt Report 2023).
Alchimia will not pour resources in the 6.4 million euros capital increase of Fenice, the Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni company of which it previously had 40% (see here a previous post by BeBeez). After the Decembre 2023 scandals related to the misleading advertising of Panettone Balocco and Easter Eggs Dolci Preziosi with the influencer’s brand, several firms decided to terminate the contracts with Ferragni. On 29 April, Tuesday, Alchimia, a venture capital firm that Paolo Barletta, Lorenzo Castelli and Marcello Tedeschi had, said it will no longer be an investor of Fenice, the vehicle that manage the Italian influencer’s brands. In March 2025, the ceo Claudio Calabi launched a 6.4 million capital increase for Fenice (see here a previous post by BeBeez) that managed to attracted the resources of Ferragni’s Sisterhood (the current sole owner of the business) ahead of attracting new investors (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In 2024, Fenice sales dropped to 2 million euros from 11 million in 2023 and 14.2 million in 2022. Between 2023 and 2024 the company posted cumulated losses of 10.2 million (6.6 million in 2023) after heavy write offs of the brands and non-material assets. Fenice previously belonged to Sisterhood (32.5%), Esuriens (27.5% – a vehicle of the Barindelli and Morgese Families) and Alchimia (40%).
